Starling Bank Chat (Part 2)

UK Financial Chat Fintech Chat
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Lloyds need to be removed. It ended on 12/04 though links generated will be valid for more 30 days after that date. By now all previous links are invalid

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Starling Advert out in the wild :eyes:

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I heard the Kiss presenter advertising it today.

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For those using Starling as a main account, how do you find the Bills Manager function- worth using?

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Not sure why they call it Bills Manager in the help articles etc. (Bills Manager: All your bills in one place | Starling) because I don’t think I’ve ever seen the term used in the app itself!

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Thanks, do you find it better, worse or the same since Starling changed the Home Screen from Spent today and spent this month to amount in spaces and total balance

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Fair enough, just comparing Monzo’s calendar feature and Starling’s Spaces in terms of budgeting and seeing which one I prefer

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Monzo pots and starling bills manager are the same thing just different names and Monzo added a calendar.

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We’ve had Starling as our joint account for a couple of years, and barely noticed that the bills manager thing, was a thing, just thought it was another spaces thing, that did not much

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Yup, all much of a muchness. Having used both it seems that neither of them seem to cope very well with weekly payments so the monthly estimates have always been under for me. The main thing I prefer over Starling’s implementation is that the money stays in the Space rather than going to your main account first like with Monzo.

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Bank statements don’t show Space movements either by memory, which makes them far more appealing for jobs like mine.

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Yep, Starling statements are much clearer

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I do sometimes feel Starling is a more in the moment experience I.e while you are doing a function it works ok, but if you want to look back i.e total spend or unified search it doesn’t quite hit the spot.

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Ah, so you use it like a standard bank account

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Starling seem to have done well in terms of media coverage/ exposure - be good if the app could be at the same level.

could be my expectations, but the images in the ads and on the website seem a bit more polished

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What do you mean by a “like a standard bank account”?

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New cards are now shown on the page that tells you to go away because your not welcome to come back :sweat_smile::blush:

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It’s their way of saying “this is what you could have but nahhh”

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If we all collectively log a complaint at the same time, maybe they’ll be incentivised to open applications or give a useful update/timescale.

Or they’ll ban us all for life. :man_shrugging:

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I was thinking of how people used to check their balance and have debits etc going out but no breakdown in spending so interaction with the website/app was limited

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